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MP3 is a patented digital audo encoding format using a form of lossy data compression. It is often referred to as MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3. MP3 is mostly used for mp3 players and other forms of audio storage devices.

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The cost to be Spider-Man may have gotten a little steeper, after details about Spidey's new suit reveal some high-tech additions. Entertainment Weekly interviewed the team behind Amazing Spider-Man 2, including costume designer Deborah Lynn-Scott, t...

Mashable's Gift of the Day series highlights cool, interesting and fun products for that special someone on your holiday list. If the next Michael Phelps is on your holiday shopping list, we've got the present for him or her. The Finis SwiMP3 player ...

Quick, how many MPEG Audio Layer III files are on your computer? If you're not sure what that is, I'll give you a hint: the clue is in the headline of this article. You probably have thousands, and likely refer to them by their street name -- MP3s. T...

Neil Young recently appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman to unveil his new music player "Pono," a possible iPod competitor. The Pono will set apart from the Apple iPod as it's intended to "present songs as they first sound during studio rec...

Philip Matesanz, a 21-year-old German student studying computer science, believes that it should be easy to convert YouTube videos into downloadable .mp3s. His website, youtube-mp3.org, allows its more than one million daily users to do exactly that....

Meet the Play-A-Grill. It's the next evolution of both blinged-out mouth-wear and portable music. Here's how the Play-A-Grill works. First, insert the shiny, retainer-like device into your mouth. Then use a wire to connect your portable MP3 player to...

Google plans to take on Apple and Amazon with its own MP3 store that will open in the next several weeks and accompany its Google Music Beta service, according to a report. Citing "numerous music executives," The New York Times reports that Google's ...

Before RCRD LBL and The Hype Machine, if you were in the market for free, legal music on the web, Epitonic was the place to go. Until it shut down in 2004, that is. Well, Tuesday -- exactly 12 years after its 1999 launch -- the site is back, bursting...

Radiohead's new album, The King of Limbs, is now available for purchase through Radiohead's website - a full 24 hours before schedule. The world's first "newspaper album," which is how Radiohead has labeled this release, costs $48 with an MP3 downloa...

One of the greatest setbacks of the Android platform has been the absence of a killer media player, as its native media player is simply lacking. To date, DoubleTwist has been the best option, but Winamp for Android is a powerful new alternative. Bef...

Amie Street, the online music community and store Amazon invested in back in August 2007, has now been acquired by Amazon for an undisclosed amount. Starting with September 22 this year, all AmieStreet.com pages will be forwarded to Amazon.com. Users...

Sarah Collins is freelance journalist and student at Northwestern University. She also writes for Texas Monthly, A.V. Club Chicago, Chicago Parent, Venus Zine, and Punknews. Some songs just need to be played in a car. They require windows-down, wind-...

In the late '90s and early aughts, MP3 players were known, well, as MP3 players. However, when Apple launched the iPod on October 21, 2001, it was such a huge success that it only took a couple of years for most people to simply start using the name ...

Hello again, music fans! We have yet another Free Music Monday for your ears this week. If you've been with us before, you'll know this feature celebrates the #musicmonday tradition on Twitter. We pick 10 tracks, albums or playlists from around the w...

Greetings, music fans! It's another Free Music Monday for your listening pleasure, which you're hopefully enjoying from the comforts of a day off. If you've been following along so far, you'll know we're celebrating the #musicmonday tradition on Twit...

In celebration of Amazon MP3's Twitter account passing the one million follower mark, the popular online storefront is giving you a free song. Remember back in the stone ages of 5 months ago when one million followers still seemed like a lot? Now acc...

Hello music lovers! In celebration of the weekly #musicmonday tradition on Twitter we bring you Free Music Monday, a compilation of some of this week's best and brightest music available for free from around the web. Because taste is subjective, we e...

Radiohead has proven itself to be one of the world's most forward-looking bands, having released the album In Rainbows online for whatever price fans wanted to pay...even if that price was nothing. Today they're continuing that innovative streak, rel...

Online music and its controversies are unavoidable, and with no end of hunger for access to tunes, the market has been an evolving battleground. With mavericks (in the non-Palin sense) like the aptly-named Grooveshark seeking to take a bite out of th...

You've got a case of the Mondays, I've got a case full of Elite Tech News. There was so much news and interesting subjects for discussion we wound up running pretty long, for us (around an hour and a half). Louis Gray almost got away with stealing a ...

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